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Posted on 05/14/2009 3:34:48 AM PDT by Man50D
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
It has been said many times before, but I’ll say it again:
My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy’s car.
Back in the early 80s, I attended a speech by the late Arkady Shevchenko, then the highest ranking Soviet official to defect to the West. He had been their top guy at the UN.
He spoke, interestingly, at KENNESAW COLLEGE — and we all know what Kennesaw is famous for! I’m proud to have played a a small role in helping Mayor Darvin Purdy get that legislation through the Kennesaw City Council.
His talk dealt with the clear intent of the leadership of the old Soviet Union to somehow take America. He mentioned their ICBMs and the nuclear blackmail threat they posed.
Then he broke from his prepared remarks and offered the audience this wisdom:
“The leaders of my country are as AFRAID OF YOUR 200 MILLION PRIVATE FIREARMS as they are of your ICBMs. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS.”
Frankly — and, while he had to be careful as he was under FBI protection at the time, Shevchenko alluded to this in his remarks — I’m as concerned about some domestic tyrant (say, a Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Barack HUSSEIN Obama or Chuck Schumer) as I am about some foreign enemy.
And it is THAT threat about which the Founding Fathers were concerned that prompted them to leave us the Second Amendment.
The BIG question is: WILL WE KEEP IT?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9q9sxJFnA
I’d love to know how the author thinks that makes the case.
Go ahead Henigan, kick that hornets nest.
assault wife....I have one ;)
“Who are the militia? are they not ourselves. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American...The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”
Tenche Coxe – Pennsylvania Gazette Feb. 20, 1788
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.”
The Federalist Papers No. 28
I know it sounds wierd, but working within the Administration the first term, before going active duty, Bush said, "I SUPPORT THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN IN ITS CURRENT FORM".
The key word is "IN ITS CURRENT FORM" which was legalese/political talk that supported the sunset provision.
Hell, I supported the AWB "in its current form" because it had a sunset provision.
He didn't use his executive office to push policy for renewal, nor would he sign it if it got to his desk, and he also had the luxury of a House and Senate that would prevent new legislation from reaching the floor.
BUSH I on the other hand....idiot.....concerning guns.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Interesting.
As to Bush I I remember his debate with Reagan and the comments about controlling handguns, as well as his attack on Wayne LaPierre.
I simply don’t like or trust the Bushes on anything anymore.
Obviously they are yet again not aware that this is a button they do not want to push...
To lie about the problem, deflect attention from the real source of the issue, and then infringe...
Seems to me that is not the right way to go...
But then again I am preaching to the choir...
That’s one smart SOB
But not "smart" enough to avoid capture after supposedly single-handedly blowing up a building full of men, women, and children, when he had a loaded 9mm on the seat, and got pulled over by a cop while he was making his 'getaway' in a car with no license plates....(what's one more murder??)
What happened to all the middle-eastern looking 'John Does'?
Imho, this was blamed on "right winged extremists" to take the heat off Janet Reno et. al. over Waco, and ignoring the Islamic connections just brought us one step closer to 9/11.
Here we go again.
Well if the fox ain’t in the hen house, then I have no clue what the h@ll is going on!
Precisely. Unalienable.
With the M14 in full auto it has way too much kick - you are right, but I LOVE the way that weapon fires straight and true in single shot mode! Very accurate and smooth!
Now, don’t get me wrong, the M16 is a fine weapon, but it isn’t everything that it was made out to be! Some AK47’s fire as smoothly and accurately as the M16 - when it is well maintained.
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